Old Palapye: Road Maps of Environs to South-east, and Town plan. Created by Captain R.H. Carr-Ellison (Bechuanaland Border Police and 1st Royal Dragoons), 1892
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Sheets labelled A to E, and cover Old Palapye in eastern Bechuanaland Protectorate and the area up to 60 miles to the south and east. Portray hydrology, relief by spot heights, approximate contours and shading, roads and tracks, telegraph lines, settlements and isolated buildings, cultivated are...
Sheets labelled A and B: A. 'Map of Road from Macloutsie [Camp] to [Old] Palapye via Taiopsi Mt.' B. 'Map of Road from [Old] Palapye to Palla (or Junction Camp) via Sofala' The sheets bear the note 'Bech[uanaland] Prot[ectorate] 12/2 from 12/1'. Sheet A bears the reference '8'; sheet B bears th...
Sheets labelled C and D: C. 'Map of Roads from Selika Mt. to Karatola, Brack Pan.' D. 'Map from Selika Mt. to Elibi. From Elibi to [Old] Palapye.' The verso of each sheet bears the note 'Bech[uanaland] Prot[ectorate] 12/2 from 12/1'. Sheet C bears the reference '9' on recto and verso; sheet D b...
Bechuanaland Protectorate.' - War Office ledger. Signed by 'F.W. Panzera. Lt. Col. Acting Res[iden]t. Commissioner Bech[uanalan]d. Protectorate. 25:2:05.
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Whole-country general map. Detail in remoter areas tends to be concentrated around expedition routes. Portrays hydrology, relief by delimiting lines around major upland areas, roads, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries, and includes topographical notes. The sheet bears the no...
Ngamiland and Kalahari Desert. Compiled by 'Lieut. A.J.B. Wavell, The Welch Regiment' and signed by 'R.L. McLintock, Major R.E. acting D[eputy].A[ssistant].Q[uarter].M[aster].G[eneral]. for Intelligence'.
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Mapping produced by Lieutenant A.J.B. Wavell, tasked with crossing the Kalahari Desert and reporting on the Bechuanaland Protectorate while on secondment to the War Office. 'From D[eputy].A[ssistant].Q[uarter].M[aster].G[eneral]. for Intell[igence]. Pretoria. T.S.G.S. 2150.' - War Office ledger...
General map of Ngamiland, north-western Bechuanaland Protectorate. Compiled from tracheameter traverse and astronomical observations, with detail largely confined to traverse routes. Portrays hydrology, relief by stylised hachures around principal features only, railways, roads and tracks, settle...
'Rough Map to Illustrate the Distribution of Water and Vegetation in the Kalahari Desert'
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Covers the Kalahari Desert in both Bechuanaland Protectorate and British Bechuanaland. Portrays 5 categories of land based on vegetation and water availability criteria.
Sketch Map of Route to Chobi and Victoria Falls. (Sgd) A. Wienholt Hodson July 1906.
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Covers the route of the Resident Commissioner's journey from Tsau in north-western Bechuanaland Protectorate 400 miles north-eastwards to the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia. Portrays hydrology, principal relief features by stylised hachures, roads, settlements, water sources, significant trees, plac...